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GLOSSARY. 



Revolute, rolled backward. 



Rachis, the main stem in a spike, etc. 



RooTSTOCK, an underground stem. 



Rotate, wheel-shaped. 



RuNCiNATE, teeth pointing backward. 



Sagittate, like an arrow-head. 



Salvee-shaped, tubular, the border spread- 

 ing at right angles to the tube. 



Scape, a flower-stalk rising from the ground 

 or near it. 



ScoRPioiD, coiled round like a scorpion. 



Secund, all turned to one side. 



Serrate, with teeth like a saw. 



Setaceous, like a bristle. 



Spatulate, like a druggist's sj^atula. 



Spike, a long inflorescenceof sessile flowers. 



Stellate, star-shaped. 



Stigma, the part of a pistil which receives 

 the pollen. 



Stipe, the stalk of an ovary. 



Stipel, the stipule of a leaflet. 



Stipellate, having stipels. 



Stipitate, having a stipe. 



Stipule, appendage on each side at the 



base of a leaf. 

 Strict, very straight or close or upright. 

 Stkigose, clothed with close-pressed stout 



sharp hairs or scale-like bristles. 

 Style, the slender part of a pistil. 

 Subulate, tapering to a sharp rigid point. 

 Suffrutescent, or suffraticose, shrubby at 



the base. 



Terete, cylindrical, long and round. 

 Terminal, at the end or summit. 

 Thyrse, a thick panicle (Lilac blossoms). 

 Tomentose, clothed with a close and mat- 

 ted down. 

 Torulose, swollen at intervals. 

 Truncate, as if cut off at ihe end. 



Umbel, umbrella-like inflorescence. 



Verticillate, whorled, forming a ring 



around the stem. 

 Villous, with long soft hairs. 

 Viscid, sticky. 



ADDITIONAL WORDS. 



Adventitious, out of the usual place; as 



roots on stems. 

 Caudex, an upright rootstock. 

 Cusp, a spear-like point. 

 Deltoid, triangular. 



Flaccid, soft, weak, drooping. 



Fusiform, spindle-shaped. 



Glabrous, smooth. 



Involucrate, provided with an involucre. 



tiOCULiciDAL, splitting down the middle of 



the back of a cell. 

 Lunate, crescent-shaped. 

 MuCRONULATE, tipped with a minute poiut. 



Papilionaceous, like the corolla of a pea. 

 Perianth, calyx and corolla together. 



Reticulated, netted-veined. 



PtUGOSE, wrinkled, rough with wrinkles. 



Saccate, with sacks or pouches. 



Scabrous, rough or harsh. 



SCARious, thin, dry, membranous. 



Septicidal, splitting between the cells. 



Spadix, a fleshy spike of flowers. 



Spathe, a bract which inwraps flowers. 



Succulent, fleshy, juicy. 



Staminodia, Sterile stamens or bodies like 



stamens. 

 Turbinate, top-shaped, an inverted cone. 



